Project Manager, Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Anti-Racism Specialist

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Ontario Health Full time

About the Role:

The Project Manager, Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Anti-Racism (EIDA-R) will play a key role in leading the management and planning of projects and initiatives within Ontario Health. This role will oversee new and existing initiatives to support the implementation of the EIDA-R framework at Ontario Health.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage projects of high priority, complexity, and long-term duration with provincial scope
  • Manage multiple projects and/or workstreams concurrently
  • Support Manager to facilitate strategic and operational coordination and alignment of Ontario Health's equity framework with Ontario Health's strategic priorities, and program strategies
  • Collaborate effectively and efficiently with two teams, while being the primary lead on creating and managing timelines, and developing/adopting systems and tools for project management
  • Pull diverse and interdisciplinary groups together, emphasizing interdependence, shared overall objectives, and the need for combined skills
  • Support and promote a cohesive team environment to foster high levels of engagement and morale
  • Monitor all project deliverables to ensure successful delivery within the constraints of scope, schedule, cost, and quality
  • Manage project risks and issues
  • Develop issues management and escalation process, project evaluation and monitoring, including the infrastructure to track key indicators
  • Lead complex interdependencies between projects and with key partners
  • Conduct regularly scheduled status reviews, provides business guidance, identifies deviations to work plan and implements corrective action
  • Develop and present material for review and information purposes using excellent written, verbal, and graphic communication skills, with ability to express complex concepts effectively
  • Be the key interface with Managers, Directors, executives, as well as internal and external stakeholders
  • Demonstrate exceptional tactical and critical strategic thinking
  • Perform cross-functional and/or other duties consistent with the job classification, as assigned or requested
  • Create new or improve existing project and portfolio management standards (including processes and tools) and provide training and consultation on project management standards and best practices

Requirements:

  • An undergraduate Degree in Health Sciences, Health Administration, Business Administration, or related field is required
  • A Master's in a related field and/or a Project Management Professional certification is an asset
  • 5-8 years of relevant Project Management experience leading multiple projects in a healthcare environment is required
  • Experience in managing large/complex operations and overseeing day-to-day operational activities

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Exceptional project management skills and experience leading multiple cross-functional projects concurrently, with a proven ability to move complex projects from start to finish through planning, development, implementation required
  • Experience in change management, process development and business/project management operations is preferred
  • Demonstrated knowledge of anti-oppression, equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism frameworks, and application in organizational settings
  • Lived experience addressing complex, equity, diversity, and human rights issues
  • Ability to successfully execute on multiple large-scale, complex, and high-risk projects
  • Ability to lead staff in a project environment
  • Collaborative leader, with the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Ability to communicate effectively with staff across the organization (including senior management), clinicians, external health service providers, community-based organizations, and customers/vendors
  • Ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders to establish trust, credibility, and respect
  • Must be passionate about leadership, organizational health, culture, values, and team development
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a hands-on manner, adjusting to issues as needed in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
  • Ability to prioritize and effectively anticipate and respond to issues as they arise
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to evaluate alternatives, find solutions, and make decisions
  • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
  • Lived experience as a member of an Indigenous and/or equity-deserving community is an asset
  • Ability to distil complex concepts by providing clarity to an executive level audience
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Project and Visio

What We Offer:

  • Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
  • Health care spending account
  • Premium defined benefit pension plan
  • 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
  • Individual contributors start at 3 weeks' vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
  • Career development opportunities
  • A collaborative values-based team culture
  • Wellness programs
  • A hybrid working model
  • Participation in Communities of Inclusion

How to Apply:

Internal Application Deadline Date: July 5, 2024

Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.

We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and/or interview process.



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